Saturday 26th.. Oct. 1805.
a clear pleasant morning. we lay campd. on the clift or pt.
of rocks for Safety. 2 Sentinels to guard us. our officers
conclude to delay here for observations and repair the canoes
&c. So we unloaded all the canoes Shaved the bottoms
Smooth and pay them over and made them in good repair &c.
Several men out a hunting. a nomber of the natives visited
us. we dryed the articles which got wet in the canoe that
filled yesterday. one of the men giged a Sammon Trout in
the River. towards evening the hunters returned to Camp
had killed five Deer a goose and a gray Squirrel. they Saw a
great nomber of deer in the timbered land. we Saw a great
no [mber] of geese and ducks. the Savages came in crafts to
our Camp made of Solid wood but are made in form of Sciffs
for the convenience of rideing the waves in high winds, or to
coast along the Sea Shore. Several of the Indians Stayed with
us this night one of them a chief. Capt. Lewis compared the
languages of these with those which he had taken down all the
way this Side of the mountains, and find them to be all one
nation but differ a little in their languages, caused by the
different tribes of them Scatered Such a long distance from
each other. all the way thick along the kimoo-e-nem &
Columbia Rivers and to the head of all the Rivers runing in to
it. we think the flat head nation to be ten Thousand Strong
in all. the River began to raise about 4 oClock P. M. and
raised Several Inches, the cause of which we think that the
tide Swels a little up to this place.
